LANDOR AND IRELAND. (To sue Eamon or sus . thvorment."3
See is a alight error in the quotation from Landor, as printed in your first leading article last week. The poem begins:— " You smiled, you spoke, and I believed, By every word and smile deceived "- end not "You wept and smiled," Re. The charming Irish girl to whom the lines were addressed was not given to weeping. A
quotation from Lander's prose might perhaps be as applicable no anything in his poetry to the Irish question. " We have no right," he wrote in 1838, "and no interest to withhold one atom of whet belongs in equity as much to Ireland as to Scotland or to England. Give that, and then proclaim it treason to devise a repeal of the Union." Was Lander ever in Ireland P Forster does not mention any visit; but in 1800 one of Landor's poems was headed " Written at Larne "; and in Latin verses printed more than sixty years afterwards there are reminiscences of what had happened to him near the " formosae villa Philippae," by whom, I take it, he meant the Countess Philippa, wife of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.—I am, Sir, U.,
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